2009年，陳剛領導的團隊在《Nano Letters》發表論文《Surface Phonon Polaritons Mediated Energy Transfer between Nanoscale Gaps》，通過實驗證實物體極接近的熱輻射傳輸，可高到定律所預測的千倍，即打破了德國物理學家普朗克於1900年創立的黑體輻射定律的預測。
G. Chen, Nanoscale Energy Transfer and Conversion, Oxford Press, ISBN 019515942X, 2005.
G. Chen, "Nonlocal and Nonequilibrium Heat Conduction in the Vicinity of Nanoparticles," ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 118, pp. 539-545, 1996.
G. Chen, "Size and Interface Effects on Thermal Conductivity of Superlattices and Periodic Thin-Film Structures," ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 119, pp. 220-229, 1997.
G. Chen, "Thermal Conductivity and Ballistic Phonon Transport in Cross-Plane Direction of Superlattices," Physical Review B., Vol. 57, pp. 14958-14973, 1998.
G. Chen, “Ballistic-Diffusive Heat Conduction Equations,” Physical Review Letters, Vol. 85, pp. 2297-2300, 2001.
R.G. Yang and G. Chen, “Thermal Conductivity Modeling of Periodic Two-Dimensional Nanocomposites,” Physical Review B, Vol. 69, 195316, 2004.
A. Henry and G. Chen, “Spectral Phonon Properties of Silicon Based Molecular Dynamics and Lattice Dynamics Simulations,” Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanosciences, Vol. 5, pp. 141-152, 2008.
A. Schmidt, M. Chiesa, X.Y. Chen, and G. Chen, “An Optical Pump-Probe Technique for Measuring the Thermal Conductivity of Liquids,” Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 79, 064902, 2008.
A. Henry and G. Chen, “High Thermal Conductivity of Single Polyethylene Chains Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations,” Physical Review Letters, Vol. 101, 235502, 2008.
S. Shen, A. Narayanaswamy, and G. Chen, “Surface Phonon Polaritons Mediated Energy Transfer between Nanoscale Gaps,” Nano Letters, Vol. 9, 2909-2913, 2009.
S. Shen, A. Henry, J. Tong, R.T. Zheng, and G. Chen, “High Thermal Conductivity Polyethylene Nanofibers,” Nature Nanotechnology, Vol. 5, pp.251-255, 2010.
D. Kraemer, B. Poudel, H.-P. Feng, J.C. Caylor, B. Yu, X. Yan, Y. Ma, X.W. Wang, D.Z. Wang, A. Muto, K. McEnaney, Q. Hao, M. Chiesa, Z.F. Ren, and G. Chen, “High-performance flat-panel solar thermoelectric generators with large thermal concentration,” Nature Materials, Vol. 10, pp. 532-538, 2011.
G. Chen, “Theoretical Efficiency of Solar Thermoelectric Generators (STEGs),” Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 109, 104908, 2011.
M. Zebarjadi, G. Joshi, A. Minnich, Y. C. Lan , X. W. Wang , G. H. Zhu, G. Chen, and Z. F. Ren, “Power Factor Enhancement by Modulation Doping in P-type Silicon Germanium Alloy,” Nano Letters, Vol. 11, pp.. 2225-2230, 2011.
K. Esfarjani, G. Chen, and H. T. Stokes, “Heat Transport in Silicon from First Principle Calculations,” Physical Review B, Vol. 84, 085204, 2011.
B.L. Liao, M. Zebarjadi, K. Esfarjani, and G. Chen, “Cloaking Core-Shell Nanoparticles from Conducting Electrons in Solids,” Physical Review Letter, Vol. 109, 126806, 2012.
Z.T. Tian, K. Esfarjani, and G. Chen, “Enhancing Phonon Transmission across Si/Ge Interface by Atomic Roughness: A First-principles Study with the Green's Function Method”, Physical Review B, Vol. 86, 235304, 2012.
D. Kraemer and G. Chen, “A Simple Differential Steady-State Method to Measure the Thermal Conductivity of Solid Bulk Materials with High Accuracy,” Review Scientific Instruments, Vol. 85, 025108, 2014.
S.Y. Lee, K. Esfarjani, T.F. Luo., and G. Chen, “Resonant bonding leads to low thermal conductivity,” Nature Communication, Vol. 5, 3535, 2014.
S.W. Lee, Y. Yang, H.-W. Lee, H. Ghasemi, D. Kraemer, G. Chen, Y. Cui, “An electrochemical system for highly efficient harvesting of low-grade heat energy,” Nature Communication, Vol. 5, 3942, 2014.
H. Ghasemi, A. Marie Marconnet, G. Ni, and G. Chen, “Solar steam generation by heat localization,” Nature Communication, Vol. 5, 4449, 2014.
Y. Yang, S.W. Lee, H. Ghasemi, X.B. Li, D. Kraemer, J. Wang, Y. Cui, and G. Chen, “A Charging-free Electrochemical System for Harvesting Low-grade Heat Energy,” PNAS, Vol. 111, pp. 17011-17016, 2014.
S.Y. Lee, D. Broido, K. Esfarjani, and G. Chen, Hydrodynamic phonon transport in suspended graphene,” Nature Communication, Vol. 6, 6290, 2015.
M.S. Branham, W.-C. Hsu, S. Yerci, and G. Chen, “15.7% Efficient, 10-μm-Thick Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells Enabled by Periodic Surface Light Trapping Structures,” Advanced Materials, Vol. 27, 2182, 2015.
Y.J. Hu, L.P. Zeng, A.J. Minnich, M.S. Dresselhaus, G. Chen, “Spectral Mapping of Thermal Conductivity through Nanoscale Ballistic Transport,” Nature Nanotechnology, Vol.10, 701–706, 2015.
O. Ilic, P. Bermel, G. Chen, J. D. Joannopoulos, I. Celanovic, and M. Soljačić, “Tailoring ultra-high temperature radiation: the resurrection of the incandescent source,” Nature Nanotechnology, Vol. 351, 215, 2016.
G. Ni, G. Li, S.V. Boriskina, H.X. Li, W.L. Yang, T.J. Zhang, and G. Chen, “Steam Generation under One Sun and Ambient Conditions,” Nature Energy, Vol 1, No. 16126, August 22, 2016.
D. Kraemer, Q. Jie, K. McEnaney, F.Cao, W.S. Sui, L. Weinstein, J. Loomis, Z.F. Ren, and Gang Chen, “Concentrating Solar Thermoelectric Generators with a Peak Efficiency of 7.4%,” Nature Energy, Vol.1,153, 2016.
B.L. Liao, A. A. Maznev, M.S. Dresselhaus, K.A. Nelson, and G. Chen, “Photo-excited Charge Carriers Suppress sub-THz Phonon mode in Silicon at Room Temperature,” Nature Communications, Vol. 7, 2016.
Patents
G. Chen, Z.F. Ren, M.S. Dresselhaus, “Nanocomposites with High Thermoelectric Figure of Merits,” US Patent No. 7,465,871 B2, Dec. 16, 2008.
G. Chen, “Potential Amplified Nonequilibrium Thermoelectric Device (PANTEC),” US Patent No. 8,309,838, November 13, 2012.
G. Chen, R.G. Yang, and A. Narayanswamy, “Surface Plasmon Coupled Nonequilibrium Thermoelectric Device,” US Patent No. 7,508,110, March 24, 2009.
Gang Chen, Xiaoyuan Chen, M.S. Dresselhaus, and Zhifeng Ren, “Solar Thermoelectric Energy Converters,” US Patent No. 8,168,879.
Gang Chen, Christine Junior, and Juergen Koehler, “System and Method for Thermal Process Including a Thermoelectric Heat Pump and Internal Heat Exchanger,” MIT Case No. 13865, August, 2009.
Gang Chen, Erik Skow, and Xiaoyuan Chen, “Polymer Sheets and Other Bodies Having Oriented Chains and Method and Apparatus for Producing Same,” US Patent No. 9,109,846, 2015.
Gang Chen, Xiaoyuan Chen, and Ronggui Yang, “Multistage Thick Film Thermoelectric Devices,” US Patent Allowed, 07/12/2016.
Gang Chen, Hadi Ghasemi, Amy Marie Marconnet, George Wei Ni, “Localized Solar Collectors” US Patent No. 9459024, 10/4/2016.
Gang Chen, Shuo Chen, Weishu Liu, Zhifeng Ren, Hui Wang, Hengzhi Wang and Bo Yu, “Methods of Synthesizing Thermoelectric Materials,” US Patent No. 9306145, 2016.
Seok Woo Lee, Yuan Yang, Hadi Ghasemi, Gang Chen and Yi Cui, “Electrochemical Sysems and Methods for Harversting Heat Energy,” US Patent Allowed 2016.
